Corn-planter.



J. R. MULDER.

CORN PLANTER. A PPUCATION FILED AUG.I3. I918.

1,295,566. Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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CORN PLANTEH.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.13,!9I8.

1,295,566. Patented F61).25,1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

Application filed August 13, 1918. Serial No. 249,656.

7 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JELTE R. Momma, a citizen of the United States,residing at Roselawn, in the county of Newton and State of Indiana, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Corn-Planters, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the corn planter disclosed. inPatent No. 1104214, the object of the invention being .to provide astructure which enables the implement to make short turns, and with thisobject in view, the invention consists in a novel combination andarrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that the invention may be better understood, reference is hadto the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, andin said drawings,

Figure l is a side elevation of the machine Fig. 2 is a cross section onthe line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a plan view.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the machine comprises a mainwheeled frame having a pivoted frame which carries the furrow openers,as well as the seed-boxes and the mechanism associated therewith, saidmechanism and the seed boxes not being illustrated as they form no partof the present invention. In front of the pivoted frame is a two-wheeledtruck having a connection with the frame as will be presently described.

As in the patent hereinbefore referred to, the main frame has side bars5 and ground wheels 9, and to the front ends of the side bars arepivoted, as indicated at 10, depending bracket members 11 carrying apair of cross bars 12 which support the furrow openers 18, said parts 11and 12 forming the pivoted frame.

The truckv hereinbefore mentioned comprises a pivoted axle 14 havingspindles at its ends on which are journaled ground wheels 15. To thisaxle are attached clips 14 for securing a draft tongue 18. On the axle14 is mounted a bolster plate 19 having upstanding end portions 20supporting at the top a cross bar 21. A kingbolt 22 passes through theaxle 14 and the at its forward end parts 19 and 21, which permits theaxle to be swung around to guide the machine.

The truck is connected to the cross bars 12 of the pivoted frame by apair of arched beams 23 as in the patent hereinbefore referred to, fourclips 23 being used.

The truck is also connected to the pivoted frame by a pair of draftlinks 29. In the previous patent these links are shown so positionedthat they prevent the truck from being swung around far enough to make ashort turn, the wheels 15 of the truck striking the links shortly afterbeing swung around for the turn. In orderto overcome this objection, thelinks have been so arranged that they lie inward of the wheels 15 asufficient distance to permit the latter to be swung around far enoughfor short turns. As shown, the two links are connected at their forwardends to the upstanding parts 20 of the bolster plate 19 by pivot bolts30, and then they are extended rearwardly in a converging manner, sothat they lie closely alongside each other in the longitudinal centerline of the machine, a sufficient distance inward of the wheel 15 so asnot to interfere with the movement thereof for a short turn. The rearends of the links seat between ears 29 on the front cross bar 12, andthey are pivoted thereto by a bolt 30 The present form of the invention,in addition to enabling the vehicle to make short turns, also embodiesall the advantages of my patented structure, which may be summed up asfollows: The weight of the machine is carried on the truck, and no partthereof rests on the necks of the animals;

having a pivoted part at its forward end,

a truck in front of said pivoted part, said truck having, an axle and abolster which are pivotally connected, and draft connections between thebolster and the aforesaid pivoted part, said connections extendingconvergingly from the bolster and having their rear ends lying in thelongitudinal connecting the ends of the bolster to the center line ofthe machine. aforesaid pivoted part, said links extending :2. Thecombination of a Wheeled frame oonvergingly from the bolster ends and 10having a pivoted part at its forward end, having their rear ends lyingin the l0ngi- 5 a truck in front of said pivoted part, said tudinalcenter line of the machine.

truck having an axle and a "bolster which In testimony whereof I affixmy signature.

are pivotally connected, and draft links JELTE R. MULDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for fivecents-each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

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